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To summarize the previous post: "Meso Acquisition Rate is more efficient than Item Drop Rate," and "Buff Freezers are better than Buff Pets." Most people understand that Buff Freezers are better than Buff Pets, and there is no room for debate, but many people questioned the point that "Meso Acquisition Rate is more efficient than Item Drop Rate," and I myself also had doubts. If you only hunt 100%, Meso Acquisition Rate is undoubtedly better than Item Drop Rate, but Meso Acquisition Rate does not affect boss rewards, while Item Drop Rate also affects boss rewards.

However, unlike the basic drop rates of Fragments and Gemstones, which are somewhat known through exploration, the application of item drop rates toBlackheart, Dawn, Ring Box, and Refinement Stone does not have clear statisticswhich was the problem.

Therefore, before accurately calculating the efficiency of boss rewards, I would like to first write a post estimating the drop rates of Blackheart, Dawn, Ring Box, and Refinement Stone. Originally, I was going to write about the boss reward efficiency according to Item Drop Rate as well, but it became too long, so I am writing a post estimating only the drop rates.

This document is by no means official and is a post with my own speculation added to the data from Inven posts and various YouTubers. If you think, 'My opinion is different. I think the Blackheart drop rate is 0.1%', then your opinion is correct.

The Item Drop Rate that affects boss rewards is limited to "Blackheart, Ring Box, Dawn, and Refinement Stone." Other rewards such as Craftsman's Cube, Premium Craftsman's Cube, Magical Scroll, Innocence Scroll, EXP Coupon, Eternal Flame, Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness, Weapon Box, Armor Box, and Exceptional Parts are not affected by Item Drop Rate. In order to calculate the "Efficiency of Item Drop Rate on Boss Rewards" that I will write later, I have excluded the remaining other rewards from the drop rate calculation for now.

In conclusion,I estimate the base drop rate of Blackheart to be 0.4%, Ring Box to be 1.5%, Dawn to be 2.5%, Guardian Angel Ring to be 5.3%, and Refinement Stone to be 3.3% based on Hard difficulty.I am estimating.

There are no statistical posts about Blackheart and Dawn that have been released over hundreds of times. However, as a result of Googling for drop rates, there was a 1000-acquisition data in the "Positive Cookie" YouTuber's internal affairs content. (Source:https://www.youtube.com/@PCOOKIEE)

Therefore, I counted the number of various rewards through the recent 20 months of data (July 2022 ~ February 2024) (+additional) from Malgeum's YouTube, who is a regular server user. (Source:https://www.youtube.com/@Malgum.)Malgeum runs Hard bosses for 4 weeks a month.

2022

July 0 Blackheart 2 Dawn

August 2 Blackheart (Lucid's Eye, Black Heart) 1 Dawn 1 Guardian Angel Ring

September 1 Blackheart (Magician's Tome) 2 Guardian Angel Ring

October 0 Blackheart 2 Dawn 1 Guardian Angel Ring

November 0 Blackheart 2 Dawn 1 Guardian Angel Ring

December 1 Blackheart (Commander Force Ring) 2 Dawn

January 0 Blackheart 6 Dawn 2 Guardian Angel Ring

Blackheart base drop rate = 1.8% / 4.46 = 0.40%

Dawn base drop rate (excluding Guardian Angel Ring) = 11.25% / 4.46 = 2.52%

Guardian Angel Ring base drop rate = 23.75% / 4.46 = 5.33%

Refinement Stone base drop rate = 14% / 4.26 = 3.28%

Ring Box = 1.4%, Blackheart = 0.4%, Dawn = 2.5%, Guardian Angel Ring = 5.3%, Refinement Stone (Hard) = 3.3%

https://www.inven.co.kr/board/maple/5746/256763: Item Drop Rate 220%, Ring Box 6.25%, Reboot > Base drop rate estimated at 1.9%

https://www.inven.co.kr/board/maple/5974/2538901: Regular server, Blackheart drop rate estimated at 1%, the author's Item Drop Rate is not presented, but it seems to be about Item Drop Rate 100%, saying that it doubles if it is 300%.

https://www.fmkorea.com/5848428335: Regular server. The author estimates 1.6~2% based on Item Drop Rate 300%.

The above article shows the consultation content of Nexon PRIME employees that the Ring Box drop rate is different depending on the boss difficulty.

In the case of Refinement Stone, the answer came in the form of "Find out through adventure", which is commonly known. (Source:https://www.inven.co.kr/board/maple/5974/3261260)However, according to users' opinions, it is generally believed that the probability of Refinement Stone is different between Easy and Normal, and Hard.

Then how different is it? There is no separate basis for this, and data has not been accumulated as above. Therefore, the following content is based on 100% my own speculation.

First, in the case of Refinement Stone, I am thinking of Easy1% / Normal 2% / Hard 3% / Extreme 4%. As I will explain in the boss reward efficiency according to Item Drop Rate in the future, Refinement Stone still maintains a high price, so if Easy Kalos is given the same 3% probability as Hard, the expected value of Refinement Stone in Easy Kalos will be abnormally high at 780 million mesos. In this case, most users will have no incentive to do Normal Kalos/Chaos Kalos party.However, if it is set to 1%, the expected value is stabilized to some extent at 260 million mesos.

In the case of Ring Box, I think it will be different by 1%~2% for each boss in addition to the basic 1.5%. For example, in SuDaeluWill + Jin (Normal), which drops mid-level rewards, Hard Suu is 1% and Normal Jin Hilla is 2%. However, since it is cumbersome to calculate like this in the reward efficiency according to Item Drop Rate that I will write later, I will just calculate it by integrating it into 1.5%.

+Modification) Guardian Angel Ring and general Dawn have been separated. In addition, Malgeum's data has been expanded from the existing 10 months to 20 months to investigate the sample.